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- Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
- Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
- A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
- Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
- Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)
- Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
- There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
- Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks"
- Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- The report of my death was an exaggeration.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
- Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
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